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Pain May Have a Trauma Origin
Traumatic experiences leave their mark on the mind and the body. Experiencing trauma, whether it’s one time, or repeatedly, changes how the brain reacts to stress. Our bodies produce hormones that help deal with temporary stress. Over production of these hormones can...
Digestive Problems Can Be Linked To Trauma
Have you ever been scared, worried, or looking back on something in the past and started to feel queasy or worse, have to head for the bathroom? It’s amazing how our bodies can be triggered by our thoughts isn’t it? Research shows that four out of ten people suffer...
Trauma Is VERY Connected To Your Health
Trauma is the emotional response resulting from incomprehensible experiences. Suffering an attack, surviving an accident, or experiencing a natural disaster isn’t something everyone goes through. It’s not normal or natural to face these types of experiences. When we...
Gut Health Affects Your Mental Health
The gut-brain connection is very much a two-way street – each affects the other.Do you experience “having butterflies” in your stomach? How about a gut-wrenching experience? Or feeling nauseous before giving a public speech? These are just some of the signs that your...
Is Your Gut Unhealthy?
There are trillions of microbes living in your digestive tract and they are responsible for almost your entire health condition. If you’re feeling lonely, irritated, bloated, or stressed, the chances are that you can trace back the root cause to your gut....
The Body’s Second Brain: The Gut Microbiome
Each of us has a unique gut microbiome. Most people think of bacteria within the body as a cause of getting sick or developing certain diseases, but the reality is that at all times there are billions of beneficial bacteria within all of us. Bacteria make up our gut...
Tips To Improve Gut Health
Always looking for a restroom? Check your microbiome!A healthy human body is swarming with microorganisms inhabiting every nook and cranny on and in the body. It is in your gut, the gastrointestinal tract, that you’ll find the largest collection of microorganisms....
Foods To Avoid To Improve Gut Health
The good, the bad, the ugly of the Western diet includes fruit and vegetables (good), refined sugars and high fructose corn syrup (bad), and processed foods and artificial sweeteners (ugly). If your gut is rumbling and roaring and causing you discomfort, the first...
Microbiome, Gut Health And Diet
You are what you eat. Your gut health is dependent on what you eat. And your gut health has a direct impact on your physical and mental health. A healthy human body has microorganisms inhabiting every nook and cranny on the body. It is in our gut, the gastrointestinal...
Function Medicine GI Map and Gut Health
Gut symptoms that we think are “normal” or “part of aging” are NOT NORMAL. That's why a GI MAP test is a valuable functional medicine test to help you figure out what's REALLY going on. First let's talk about the current mainstream "solutions". If you haven’t noticed,...